Charles herscher



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vC. HERSCHER.

DISINFBGTING APPARATUS. No. 548,545. Patented Oct. 22, 1895.

WlTNESSES NVENTOR Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Figs. 3, 4,

Arent CHARLES HERSCI-IER,

OF PARIS, FRANCE.

DlSlNFECTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 548,545, dated October 22, 1895.

Application tiled November 28, 1892. Serial No. 452,935. (No Belgium April 20, 1889, No. 85,917; in Italy September 30, No. 36,996.

.To ctZ whom it may con/cera:

Beit known that 1, CHARLES Hnasonnn, (of the firm of Geneste, I-lerscher t Co.,) a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at Paris, in the Republic of France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Disin fecting or Cleaning Apparatus, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in France, No. 197,551, dated April 17, 1889; in Belgium, No. 85,917, dated April 20, 1889; in Italy, No. 28,074, dated September 80, 1890, and in Austria-Hungary, No. 36,996, dated January 25, 1891,) of which the following is a specitication.

This invention has for its object a means of simultaneously cleansing and disinfecting in a rapid, reliable, and economical manner Walls which are contaminated or soiled with viscous or adhesive deposits, such as are noticeable in cattle-trucks, stables, cowsheds, tbc.

It consists in a device for the simultaneous projection of a jet ot boiling water under steam-pressure and of an antiseptic solution. The simultaneous projection of these two agents is obtained by means of a special proj acting apparatus, the whole forming, with a steam-boiler, a light and compact apparatus capable of being rapidly set in action. This apparatus is intended for simultaneously disinfecting and cleansing and is shown on the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a side View of the apparatus.

5, and 6 are views of details hereinafter described.

The apparatus comprises a boiler fixed on a four-wheeled carriage with suspensionsprings, which also support a water-reservoir A and a vessel B containing an antiseptic solution. The water from the reservoirA is for feeding the boiler, which may be done either by means ot an injector .T or by means of a steam-pump ll. The boiler and the reservoir A are so arranged that the boiler may be iilled with water before commencing to use it by lling the reservoir A with water. The boiler is a rapidly-heating one with a steamreservoir R. ltis provided with the accessory fittings, such as valves, manometers, watergage glasses, gage-taps,cleaning-plugs, dto.

The chimney E is provided with a strong model.) Patented in France April 17, 1889, No., 197,551; in 1890, No. 28,074, and in Austria-Hungary January 25, 1891,

hinge a, so that it can be lowered. A blower allows of the draft being increased.

Inside the boiler a curved tube Z is attached to the steam-reservoir, and its lower extremity below the watenline terminates at some distance above the level of the upper tubes or ofthe root' of the furnace. This tube is in connectionwith an external tap from which runs a tube C, ending in a special injector D, which draws the antiseptic liquid from the vessel B by means of a pipe e. The tube is extended beyond the injector D and terminates in a tap r. An india-rubber or canvas hose-pipe fr', (see Fig. 4,) with a nozzle at the end, is fixed on this tap fr. The injector D employed consists, as shown in detail on a larger scale in Fig. 3, of two or more conical divergent tubes having each a narrower part, and which are fitted one in the other in such a way that one of the widened ends of each tube coincides with the narrower part of the tube inclosing it. Fig. 4, shows this injector D arranged in the length of the tube C and connected with the tube e, which has a regu lating-tap U. The boiling water under pressure passes by the tube C into the suction device, thereby drawing or sucking up the antiseptic liquid, which rises through the tube c and mingles with the boiling Water to be projected simultaneously through the nozzle, the flexible tube of which is fixed to the tap fr.

Instead of an injector D being used for drawing up the antisepticliquid bythe agency ofthe boiling water this liquid may be forced up into the tube C. For this purpose the tube'C instead of being provided with the injector D is provided with an injector D', (shown in detail on a larger scale in Fig. 5, into which the extremity ofthe tube e', which is provided with a regulating-tap fu', simply opens. The opposite end of this tubeA dips into the vessel B, as shown in Fig. 6. Further, a tube y (see Fig. (i, and also in dotted lines in Fig. 1) places the vessel B and the steam-reservoir R in communication. Under 9 5 the action of the pressure which is then" exerted in the vessel Blythe antiseptic liquid rises by the tube e and flows into the interior ofV the injector D', where it mingles with the boiling water supplied by the tube C and is IOO the nozzle fixed tothe tap r.

1. In an apparatus for simultaneously dis-r infecting,r and cleansing, the combination of a boiler, and a pipe C leading therefrom belo7 the Water line to supply boiling Water under boiler pressure, With a Vessel B'for an tiseptic solution, an injector in the Ysaid pipe C, and a pipe leading from the 'said vVessel B to'theinjeetor toy supply' the antiseptic tfluid to they boilingr Water coming from the boiler, the said pipe C beine: extended beyond the injector and provided with a tap r and discharge pipe,substantially as set forth.

2. In an apparatus for simultaneously disinfecting and cleansing, the combination of a boiler, a pipe @leading therefrom and provided with an injector D having divergent cones, with a Vessel B, for an antiseptic solution and apipe e immersed in thesolution in tbe said vessel at one end and connected to the injector D at the other end, all substantially as and vfor the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my `name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses,

CHARLES IIERSCHER. VI"iit'nesses:

J osEPH DELAGE, ROBT; M HooPER, 

